lump quotes

  • Sure the poet†spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once.

    -John Dryden
      Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco,'The First  Act'.

  • The camel's hump is an ugly lump Which well you may see at the Zoo; But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      Just So Stories,'How the Camel Got His Hump'.

  • Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!

    - Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
      The Innocents Abroad.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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